"Who?" Cui Hongshen was greatly startled. He knew that the restrictions around their residence were no longer the same as before. To protect them, although Qian Mo had not taken away his token, he could only use it to summon the guarding disciples inside; he himself could not leave!
But immediately afterward, Cui Hongshen cried out in delighted surprise, "Junior Brother Xiao... you're back too?"
However, when Cui Hongshen opened his eyes and saw Xiao Hua standing alone before him, with no guarding disciple beside him, he was stunned again. "You... how did you get in? Where is the guarding disciple?"
"Don't ask how I got in!" Xiao Hua said coldly. "Instead of cultivating properly, you... what are you laughing at?"
"Hehe, Cui merely wanted to cultivate, but when I thought of how we would soon return to Myriad Thunder Valley and see Master and Mistress, I couldn't help but laugh!" Cui Hongshen naturally would not tell the truth.
"You didn't think of Senior Sister Dui?"
"Hehe, naturally I did!" Cui Hongshen did not deny it either. "Qi Meng returned to Qiong Lei Peak five years ago. I wonder how she is now. Does she know that we did not perish?"
"You're worried she might enter dual cultivation with someone else, aren't you?" Xiao Hua asked coldly.
"This..." Xiao Hua's cold water had thoroughly dampened Cui Hongshen's spirits. He had occasionally thought of it during that time, but immediately dismissed the notion. With his life and death unknown, how could Dui Qimeng possibly choose another man to remarry?
"What if Senior Sister Dui entered dual cultivation with someone else?" Xiao Hua seemed utterly unconcerned with Cui Hongshen's thoughts as he pressed the question.
"Impossible!" Cui Hongshen denied it outright. "Qi Meng is absolutely not that sort of person. She would